My subnotebook never makes any fan noise in normal operations, but when it does, it is frightening, too. And yes, this mirrored sound is totally nice, never thought such a small piece of hardware could sound so, well, "ok". Probably due to not being all plastic, too.

GRE is done. With any luck, I won't be around this fall to start grad school,
but I'm going through the process as though I were, since it would suck to
delay school for another year and then have the mobilization fall through.

Next is Security+, then I will take a break from useful things and get my
general radio license.

I'm not actually worried per se about the Security+, but there are a fair
number of things I know OF but not necessarily ABOUT. It's all part of the
baseline cert list required for DoD to do computery things. I have a Certified
Ethical Hacker course in a few weeks also on that list which will be similarly
kinda-sorta-not-really challenging. Once I have the baseline things, the
Army will put me in for higher level, more interesting courses.

Well, here it is April 10 and I've just completed my latest filing ever.

The sad thing is, the government has been earning interest on my money for
a few extra months, money they will use to keep the lights on in large buildings
where bureaucrats decide how to screw me more.

Soldered a thermal sensor, using a transistor and a capacitor. Attached it to the mainboard of a XW8600 HP workstation and it works fine. Now the fans in my frankensteinian hackintosh spin at reasonable low rate.